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92 lines
3.6 KiB
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.Dd $Mdocdate: November 20 2022 $
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.Dt PACKAGE 7
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.Os Telodendria Project
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm package
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.Nd Some guidelines for packaging Telodendria for your system.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Pp
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Telodendria is distributed at source code, and does not offer a convenient
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install process. This is intentional; the Telodendria project is primarily
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concerned with developing Telodendria itself, not packaging it for the
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hundreds of different operating systems and Linux distributions that exist.
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It is my firm belief that distributing an open source project is not the
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job of the open source developer; that's the reason software distributions
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exist, to collect and distribute software.
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.Pp
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It would be impossible to package Telodendria for every platform, because
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each platform has very different expectations for software. Even different
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Linux distributions have different conventions for where manual pages,
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binaries, and configuration files go.
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.Pp
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That being said, this page aims to assist those who want to package
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Telodendria, or just install it from source, though that's not recommended.
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.Pp
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See
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.Xr td 8
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for instructions on how to build Telodendria. Only proceed with packaging
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Telodendria after you have successfully built it on your operating system.
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.Pp
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To package Telodendria, you should collect the following files, and figure
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out where they should be installed for your system:
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.Bl -bullet
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.It
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The telodendria server binary itself:
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.Pa build/telodendria
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.It
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All manual pages in the
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.Pa man/
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directory that are prefixed with "telodendria". These are the user documentation
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pages. All pages that do not have the "telodendria" prefix are intended only
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for developers, and so do not need to be installed to the system.
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.It
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An init script. People that wish to install Telodendria to their system
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expect it to be integrated enough that Telodendria can be easily started at
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boot, and otherwise managed by the system's daemon tools, be it systemd, or
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another init system. An init script suitable for your platform might be
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available in
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.Pa contrib/ ,
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but if not, it should be trivial to write your own. If you do end up making
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an official package for your system, feel free to submit your init script
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to be added to the
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.Pa contrib/
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directory.
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.It
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A sample
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.Pa telodendria.conf
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file. Whether this file is placed at the actual configuration file location,
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or a directory containing configuration file samples is entirely up to the
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packager. You can use or adapt any of the configuration files in
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.Pa contrib/ ,
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or write your own specifically for your package.
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.El
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.Pp
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Once you have collected the files that need to be installed, make sure your
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package performs the following tasks on install:
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.Bl -bullet
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.It
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If necessary, depending on the config used, create a new system user for
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the Telodendria daemon to run as.
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.It
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If conventional for your system, enable the Telodendria init script so
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that Telodendria is started on system boot.
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.It
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Insruct the user to carefully read the sample
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.Pa telodendria.conf
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as well as the
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.Xr telodendria.conf 5
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manual page before starting Telodendria.
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.El
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.Pp
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The goal of a package should be to get everything as ready-to-run as possible.
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The user should only have to change one or two default options in the configuration
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file before Telodendria can be started.
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.Pp
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Remember to publicly document the setup of Telodendria on your platform so
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that users can easily get Telodendria running. If you're packaging Telodendria
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for a containerization system such as Docker, you can omit the things that
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containers typically do not have, such as the init script and man pages.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr telodendria-contributing 7 ,
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.Xr td 8 ,
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.Xr telodendria 7
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